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Serply pricing and alternatives: news API

Serply's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free to start one of Serply's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/news/ Serply's only call for this API
API: News API one of Serply's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Serply searches the news when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,500 credits, enough for 2,500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 30 days.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/news/. You can also send ceid, resolve_links, the X-Proxy-Location header and the X-User-Agent header. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Serply: news API alternatives

The table starts with Serply's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Serply's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Serply, $375 packSerper, $375 packSearchCans, $99 packAutom, $375 packCrawlerData, $375 pack, Standard, POST /v1/jobs
$ per 1,000 searches$0.75$0.75$0.75$0.75$0.75
Completeness50%67%67%50%67%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$375$375$99$375$375
Enough for500,000 calls500,000 calls132,000 calls500,000 calls500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyonebusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"businesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overprofessionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contractanyone 18 or older using it for a business or profession

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. app.serply.io/users/sign_up?source=pricing-free
  2. serply.io
  3. serply.io/docs
  4. serply.io/docs/resources/google-news
  5. serply.io/docs/resources/reddit
  6. serply.io/google-news-api
  7. serply.io/pricing
  8. serply.io/pricing.md
  9. serply.io/terms
  10. serply.io/web-scraping-api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image, not in the answer
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Search · Bing Search · Google Video · Google Images · Google Jobs · Google Scholar · Google Product · Google Maps · Request · eBay Search · GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/{subreddit} · GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/{subreddit}/about · GET /v1/reddit/user/{username} · GET /v1/reddit/post/{id} · GET /v1/reddit/comments/{id}
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet real-time Google News data as JSON. Filter by country, language, and topic with blazing-fast responses.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,500 credits
Enough for2,500 calls
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median4.08 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: ceid, resolve_links, X-Proxy-Location header, X-User-Agent header
MethodGET
Path/v1/news/
About the plan
PlanFree to start
Who can get itanyone
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result title, news result link, news result description, news result date, news result source, news result Google link, news result link resolved, news result sub articles, news links resolved, news feed title, news feed URL, news feed language, news feed publisher, news feed generator, news feed updated at, news entities

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